“I’m tired of chasing the bullies around the schoolyard,” Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo told a gathering of local officials in Pampanga the other day. “Those who would heed my call for unity and reconciliation, they are welcome. But those who would keep on creating disturbance, we’re on top of the situation. Our barangay officials will enforce the … Read more
Our country is an aircraft, and its name is Philippine Airlines. We are its patient passengers. This plane is long-delayed for a host of reasons – a bomb threat from nowhere, a malfunctioning engine that has seen better days, chaotic procedures, and a crew that is too timid and too uncaring to explain the situation … Read more
At a student leaders’ conference in the University of the Philippines the other day, Bam Aquino of the National Youth Commission ran a quick survey with the audience. To every question, he requested the participants to stand up to register their response. The last question was: “How many of you are confused about the present … Read more
Many truths about our lives and the world largely pass unnoticed. But, in our country, the one truth that agitates almost everyone, except maybe Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her allies, is whether she conspired with former Commission on Elections Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano to manipulate the results of the last presidential election. This is the truth insinuated … Read more